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BMW Group June sales up 2.1% as sales of 5 series fall

Wed, Jul 12, 2017 - 4:33 PM

BMW Group, which owns the Mini, Rolls-Royce and BMW brands, said its June car sales rose 2.1 per cent worldwide, despite a 16.5 per cent sales dip in Germany and a decline in sales in the new BMW 5 series.

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[FRANKFURT] BMW Group, which owns the Mini, Rolls-Royce and BMW brands, said its June car sales rose 2.1 per cent worldwide, despite a 16.5 per cent sales dip in Germany and a decline in sales in the new BMW 5 series.

BMW said June sales of the 5 series were down 7.9 per cent on the year at 27,595 cars, because of a lack of availability for a new long-wheelbase variant in China that is still in the launch phase and has not yet been rolled out to all showrooms.

Compared with June last year, sales of the 5 series were down 64 per cent in China, which makes up about half of all global demand for the 5 series.

Sales in Germany fell. Furthermore, BMW said a delay of certain components from Bosch had led to production shortages. A Takata airbag issue had also caused a steering wheel variant that is popular in Germany, to be unavailable, BMW said.